It felt like living anywhere else. I saw poverty daily but I lived a good life with other middle class people. People love their families, pray for more money and love a good drink. They praise the government when a new train station is built, but everyone in my district wasn’t happy because we were below the river that the government had arbitrarily decided divided which buildings were given permits to be built with heating and which weren’t, so we froze in winter.
I loved my electric scooter, I nearly died every day on the roads. The best meals I ever had were at the Buddhist temple where everything was vegetarian. You paid if you could so those who couldn’t could have a free meal.
I’ve also never seen so many elderly people forced to work to avoid hunger and homelessness. From the bicycle parking attendants to the elderly couple who lived in a partition in my buildings garage.
Every country has lifted people out of poverty over the last 100 years. Do you really think Chinese people don’t pay for their houses?
Don’t confuse my criticism of China with an endorsement of America or capitalism. Just a counterbalance to the delusion I see in these threads.
I lived in China mate.
It felt like living anywhere else. I saw poverty daily but I lived a good life with other middle class people. People love their families, pray for more money and love a good drink. They praise the government when a new train station is built, but everyone in my district wasn’t happy because we were below the river that the government had arbitrarily decided divided which buildings were given permits to be built with heating and which weren’t, so we froze in winter.
I loved my electric scooter, I nearly died every day on the roads. The best meals I ever had were at the Buddhist temple where everything was vegetarian. You paid if you could so those who couldn’t could have a free meal.
I’ve also never seen so many elderly people forced to work to avoid hunger and homelessness. From the bicycle parking attendants to the elderly couple who lived in a partition in my buildings garage.
Every country has lifted people out of poverty over the last 100 years. Do you really think Chinese people don’t pay for their houses?
Don’t confuse my criticism of China with an endorsement of America or capitalism. Just a counterbalance to the delusion I see in these threads.